The best games released in 1991📆 2025

Tichu is an intriguing partnership card game that combines elements of Zheng Fen with traditional card play. It stands out as a strategic and competitive game, requiring players to be both tactically astute and keenly aware of their partner's actions. Typically played by four players in partnerships, the game is a race to get rid of all cards in hand, while aiming to score points.

Quarto is an abstract strategy game that offers a unique blend of simplicity and depth. This game captures the essence of strategic thinking, wrapped in an elegant and easy-to-understand design.

Players take on the role of musketeers trying to acquire three valuable gems while facing sabotage from the Cardinal and his feared guard. After battling through several skirmishes, the most successful musketeers earn gems, while failures end up in prison with nothing to show. The game concludes after a set number of fights or when a player reaches a specified score, with the winner determined by the most coins or points collected.

Players assume the roles of detectives trying to catch a thief in a semi-cooperative game set in a private art museum. The thief secretly plans movements while detectives attempt to locate them using their eyes, cameras, or motion sensors. After stealing a painting, the thief can move before it is removed from the board, adding urgency as detectives must strategize and respond quickly. The game concludes when the thief successfully escapes after stealing three paintings, with unique challenges based on the locked exits and the random movements of the detectives.

Players move their cars on a track with 30 spaces, where positions are numbered 1 to 10 multiple times. The cards vary in strength based on the number of the space occupied, allowing significant movement when on matching numbers. The game features a series of fast-paced races, with the last-place car being eliminated after each race, continuing until only two cars remain for the final showdown.

Players start with a card that assigns them a secret interest in three different balloons. They roll a die and choose one of the eight balloons to move, encountering various actions depending on where they land. As the colorful balloons float towards the finish line, players feign disinterest in their own colors while hoping others will help them win.

Monopoly Express is a dice game derived from Monopoly. The game board features the property groups from the original game, marked by color. Players roll ten dice, set aside any that show "Go," "to," or "prison," and keep dice from the color group of their choice to score points.

With illustrations from the original novels, this card game evokes the feeling of a hunt through Victorian London, where players aim to unmask Moriarty and other villains. Players draw and play cards in a specific sequence, utilizing actions like movement and gaining clues. The game ends when a villain is successfully apprehended or when a player plays their last card, leading to a score based on the remaining cards in hand.

Master Labyrinth is a strategic and intriguing board game that belongs to the Ravensburger Labyrinth Games series. It builds on the concept of the simpler Labyrinth game but introduces more complexity and thematic depth. Players assume the roles of wizards-in-training, navigating a randomly arranged maze of tiles to collect essential ingredients in numerical order necessary for their mystical training.

History of the World is a grand strategy game that spans across different epochs of human history, from the ancient Sumerians to pre-WW1 Germany. Each player controls a series of empires, each unique in strength and capabilities. The game is played over seven rounds, and players score points based on the territories their current and previous empires control at the end of each epoch. Event cards, navigation abilities, and conquest through battles are key aspects of gameplay, with players expanding their empires by occupying or conquering adjacent lands. Various factors influence battles, including terrain and fortifications. Players can build monuments and score additional points for controlling capitals, cities, and monuments. The game ends after the seventh epoch, with the player having the highest score, including secret pre-eminence marker points, declared the winner.